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More than a month after Mozilla came out with Firefox 32, the company has updated the web browser for Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms, bumping it to version 33.0. Aside from bug fixes, the update also brings some new…

Google has quietly started to roll out HD video quality for Hangouts as part of a larger move toward open standards that will one day allow the social network to offer video chat in browsers without the need for plug-ins.

Last week at I/O 2013, Google said it is nearly finished developing the new royalty-free VP9 video codec. The new specification is available now for testing, and will be officially finalized on June 17, reports CNET.

After years of throwing its weight behind Google's VP8 video codec (aka: WebM), Mozilla has officially slipped support for H.264 video into its Firefox Nightly builds -- but only for Windows 7 users. Although once a battle waged to fight…

Microsoft scored a victory against Google-owned Motorola Mobility this week after a judge scrapped 13 of the latter party's patent claims in a years-long dispute over H.264-related royalties. Waged in US and German courts, the battle involves three patents (7,310,374,…

Microsoft has suffered a setback in a dispute with Motorola over patents involving technology in the Xbox 360. In a preliminary ruling Monday, US ITC Judge David Shaw found that Microsoft is infringing on four of the five patents in…

In an effort to maintain an unencumbered experience for users, the Mozilla Foundation is reconsidering its stance against supporting H.264 video. If the organization decides to relax its policy for using only open standards, we can expect to see H.264…

Microsoft has launched a legal assault against Motorola for requesting unfair patent royalties involving video streaming. Filed with the European Commission, the complaint alleges that Motorola has broken a promise to license patents on industry-standard technologies in a "fair, reasonable…